Video game players or gamers are often represented stereotypically in the media and society, furthermore they are stigmatised and thought of as dysfunctional people in the social, work and family environments. Video games are potentially addictive, some authors and research point at the relatively small amount of gamers who are prone to compulsive and excessive play of video games. Vulnerable groups are children and adolescents that don’t receive parental supervision during their video game playtime nor receive sufficient amounts of information and education on this topic regarding video games. It is important to distinguish between the real world and the virtual world. Since there are plenty of video games, there exist a number of genres and subgenres of video games. Video games, that is the content of video games is unjustly blamed for encouraging players to commit crimes and various acts of social deviation, but for the aforementioned claims there exists no concrete evidence. In the media common portrayal of gamers and video games is inendated with sensationalism or based on unverified information. A number of arguments exist that show the positive impact of video games, and the goal of this paper is to specify specific examples that prove the positive impact of video games, explain what a gaming disorder is, to show examples of bans and censorship of video games. Based on an online questionnaire conducted on anonymous gamers, gamers themselves will present their thoughts and views on the topic. 18 male and 2 female gamers from different counties of Croatia participated in the poll.